Get ready to face challenges with a Welsh breakfast
UNDER normal circumstances our staff would be busy this month setting up village halls, cafes, farmhouse kitchens and Cardiff Bay’s Pierhead Building for the annual farmhouse breakfast week, and we would be looking forward to sitting around kitchen tables with friends, family and neighbours up and down the country sharing stories, thoughts, worries, and anything else on our minds.
Of course, given the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the usual way of running our farmhouse breakfast week is sadly not an option.
However, the ethos of sitting around the kitchen table to enjoy the wonderful produce our farmers produce, from eggs, cheese, bacon and sausages to butters and yoghurts etc, is still very much do-able at home with our closest family.
But just as we as an industry are resilient and have to adapt to the many challenges we face, so is the FUW, and we have therefore joined forces with butchers, farm shops, cafes and other food retailers across Wales to help spread the word about the fantastic produce that is available right on our doorstep. Details of participating businesses can be found on our website.
Our industry comprises a rich network of family farms, which support and fuel local communities, pump primes the circular economy and protect and nourish our special Welsh culture and identity. Our farmers also look after our precious landscape for local people and visitors to enjoy, while our grass-based, rainrefreshed livestock production system is one of the world’s most sustainable.
We harness, encourage, replenish and replace the planet’s natural resources and our products meet environmental, welfare and health rules that put to shame farming systems in most other parts of the world, where pillaging the environment for profit is more often the norm.
It’s quite clear that we are living in different times, challenging times, and perhaps the most uncertain times that many of us will have experienced in decades. But what better way is there to get ready to face those challenges than with a proper Welsh breakfast!
So get involved with our virtual breakfast week by purchasing locally sourced breakfast ingredients, and sharing your photos and videos of your breakfast with us through social media.